Differentiating between right-lateralised semantic dementia and behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia: An examination of clinical characteristics and emotion processing

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1082-1088

  Kamminga, Jody ^a,b   Kumfor, Fiona ^a,b   Burrell, James R ^a,b,c   Piguet, Olivier ^a,b,c   Hodges, John R ^a,b,c   Irish, Muireann ^a,b,c  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ARC CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN COGNITION AND ITS DISORDERS   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATHY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTAL GYRUS; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; OBSESSION; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY; AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FACE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMOTIONS; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GRAY MATTER; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84934339039     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2014-309120     Document Type: Article

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